The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 8
Suddenly there sprang out from the bushes two lions, and a lion cub with them.
What happens: spring out · To what, where: lion cub, bushes
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bushes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bushes | det |
| 7 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sprang | obl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 lions | nummod |
| 9 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bushes | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cub | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cub | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cub | det |
| 13 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cub | compound |
| 14 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cub | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring out | gerund | a lion cub with lions | the bushes two lions; there | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bush=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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